Light and electron microscopic immunocytochemical study on the innervation of the pineal gland of the tree shrew (Tupaia glis), with special reference to peptidergic synaptic junctions with pinealocytes

Brain Research

Volumn 842, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 359-375

  Kado, Masanori ^a   Yoshida, Akitoshi ^a   Hira, Yoshiki ^a   Sakai, Yuko ^a   Matsushima, Shoji ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Immunocytochemistry; Innervation; Peptide; Pineal gland; Synapse; Tree shrew (Tupaia glis)

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MYELINATED NERVE; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PINEAL BODY; PINEALOCYTE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHWANN CELL; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLIONECTOMY; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROPEPTIDES; PINEAL GLAND; SUBSTANCE P; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SYNAPSES; TUPAIIDAE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0032864175     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01856-9     Document Type: Article

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